STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Rivera – 4-8, 2 RBI, R
• Sophomore Jorge Burgos (Santo Domingo, D.R.) – 2-5, 2 R
• Junior Nick Schwartz (Massapequa, N.Y.) – 2-6, R, 3 RBI, HR, 3 BB
• Junior Cam Caraher (Plymouth, Mass.) – 2-7, R, RBI, HR, BB

KEY MOMENTS – GAME 1

• After Goldey-Beacom scored single runs in the first and third, Southern New Hampshire jumped in front with a three-run fourth. Schwartz and Caraher led off the frame with back-to-back solo shots that tied it, before Rivera lifted a sacrifice fly to left that put the Penmen on top, 3-2.
• GBC answered back with a three-run fifth that leapfrogged it back in front, 5-3. The Lightning added another run in the sixth to double up the Penmen 6-3.
• A two-out RBI single from Rivera made it a two-run game, but SNHU went 1-2-3 in the ninth to end it.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE – GAME 1

• Burgos went 2-for-3 and scored a run.
• Rivera was 2-for-4 and knocked in a pair of runs.
• Caraher finished 1-for-3 with a home run, walk, RBI and a run scored.
• Schwartz was 1-for-4 with the home run, walk, RBI and run.
• Junior Mike LaRocca (Vero Beach, Fla.) and redshirt-junior Cristian Mercedes (Providence, R.I.) were both 1-for-5.
• Junior Brandon White (Simsbury, Conn.; 2-1) allowed four runs on six hits over four-and-a-third innings, while striking out one and walking a pair.
• Sophomore Frankie Sanchez (Kendall Park, N.J.) gave up two runs on five hits, while fanning six and walking one, in three-and-two-thirds innings.

KEY MOMENTS – GAME 2

• SNHU grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the second on a two-out, run-scoring single from Mercedes that plated Caraher, who singled earlier in the inning.
• The Penmen scored three times in the third, highlighted by a two-out, two-run single from Schwartz that scored a pair of unearned runs and made it 4-0.
• Another run in the fourth – Burgos led off the frame by getting hit by a pitch and later scored on a passed ball – brought the score to 5-0.
• Goldey-Beacom started clawing its way back in the fifth, with a two-run home run off the bat of Johnny Kampes making it 5-2.
• The Lightning then sent eight to the plate in the sixth and scored four times, taking advantage of three walks, two hit batsmen, two wild pitches and a passed ball, to take a 6-5 lead.
• The Penmen tied it in dramatic fashion in the seventh, as Rivera singled, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on LaRocca's two-out single to right.
• Goldey-Beacom won it in the home half of the seventh, however, with Anthony Charles reaching on a fielding error, moving to second on a sac bunt and then scoring on a throwing error.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE – GAME 2

• Rivera was 2-for-4 and scored a run.
• Mercedes went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
• Caraher (run), LaRocca (RBI, run) and freshman Jake Risedorf (Barkhamsted, Conn.; RBI, run) were all 1-for-4.
• Junior George Welch (Derry, N.H.) pitched five-plus innings and was charged with four runs on seven hits, while striking out six and walking a pair.
• Freshman Parker Lendrum (Exeter, N.H.) threw a wild pitch before being taken out.
• Junior Gilbert Griffin (Concord, N.H.) allowed two runs on a walk and a hit batsmen, and did not record an out.
• Freshman Frankie DeMaro (Newburgh, N.Y.; 0-1) gave up one unearned run on a pair of walks in an inning-and-a-third of work.

NOTES

• Southern New Hampshire, ranked 10th in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Top 25 and 20th in the Collegiate Baseball Division II Poll, loses three of four to the Lightning.
• Goldey-Beacom now leads the all-time series, 3-1, as this weekend marked the first meeting between the two programs.
• Schwartz' home run was his third of the season and the 12th of his Penmen career.
• Caraher's long-ball was his second of 2023 and his 10th in a Penmen uniform.

UP NEXT

• The Penmen are back in action Saturday, March 25 when they open NE10 play with a noon doubleheader at American International College.